Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP)
The PSNC website includes comprehensive details regarding Healthy Living Pharmacy which can be accessed here: https://psnc.org.uk/services-commissioning/locally-commissioned-services/healthy-living-pharmacies/
What is a Healthy Living Pharmacy?
The concept of a Healthy Living Pharmacy is a pharmacy that:
- Delivers a broad range of services to a high quality and consistently, whatever the day of the week or month of the year
- Has a team that are pro-active in supporting health and wellbeing, with the community's health at the centre of what it does
- Promotes healthy living and wellbeing as a core activity
- Supports people with long-term conditions
- Is accessible and approachable
- Is valued and trusted
- Maintains premises to a high professional standard with private consultation facilities and IT linked to local practices when available
- Works closely with other healthcare providers, reactively and proactively; and will be identifiable to the public and other healthcare professionals
To achieve the Healthy Living Pharmacy status pharmacies need to demonstrate three key areas of development:
- Developing workforce - includes having Health Living Champions (HLC) and developing leadership skills.
- Environment - includes having suitable premises, consultation room(s), health promotion area and IT capability.
- Multidisciplinary engagement - working with GPs, Commissioners and other provider service.
Public Health England (PHE) Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) Newsletter
Public Health England (PHE) publish a quarterly e-newsletter to provide updates on national HLP development and share innovative practice from across the country. Previous issues are available below.
PHE - Healthy Living Pharmacy Newsletter: January 2019
PHE - Healthy Living Pharmacy Newsletter: June 2018
If you would like to sign up to receive the quarterly HLP newsletter via email, please email hlpnewsletter@phe.gov.uk.
If you have any suggestions or would like to be involved in an upcoming HLP newsletter or event, please contact Theresa Nguyen, Senior Pharmacy Programme Officer at hlpnewsletter@phe.gov.uk.
Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) Level 1 Resources
Many of the resources needed to become HLP Level 1 accredited are included in the Public Health England HLP Quality Criteria document but below is a list of other resources (including local information) that you may need:
Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) Level 1 - Resource List
Last updated 1st August 2019.